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Josephia smiles and says with a hearty tone, “so listen up fellow adventurers for a tale of legend, a tale of the blue haired sorceress and the cranky paladin” She clears her throat, “here we go.”

This was told from Josephina’s perspective with occasional accompaniment of her lute like a ballad at times but mostly spoken, don’t expect anything to rhyme. I’m not a Bard, so you had to be there to get the full experience. Just read it normally because otherwise it’s far more tedious than it should be, which is tedious enough. Written by SheShe, retold by Josephia.

Her party sits at a near table: Jack the leader, a human paladin, Herald the human archer, and Faren the older human wizard. The only other adventurers in the guild are: Therdon, a dragonewt fighter, Riri a dragonewt ice elemental spellsword, and Firia, a dragonewt blood hunter.

[See attached text file, happy reading.]

Ashley nods, "pretty close to how I remember it."

It's approaching noon and more adventurers have arrived for lunch. Notably a group of Teiflings with the three beastkin slave children from earlier though they're seemingly unchained now and their expressions are merry as they follow their horned hosts.

Ashley notes this but contains herself. Her stomach growls.

Herald approaches Ashley cautiously and places a hand on the back of her chair, "how are you today?"